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“Is there a right to water?” The San Francisco Chronicle’s editors asked today. The editorial outlined how water isn’t currently considered a human right by the UN, an issue the Guardian also recently covered. The Chron still found a way to Read more »

As the year winds down, I’d like to note what I consider to be the most politically courageous act of 2008: Attorney General Jerry Brown’s decision to reverse his position and urge the California Supreme Court to overturn Prop. Read more »

Forgive the blunt headline, but it seems to me an inescapable conclusion based on the ridiculousness going on right now in Sacramento. Since writing about Republican legislators' illogically doctrinaire opposition to taxes in this week's paper, I've now watched the Democrats come up with a dishonest yet effective way around the blockade.

I've always had mixed feelings about the Huffington Post, and not just because of media-savvy founder Arianna Huffington's convenient conversion from neocon darling to progressive populist. No, for me, as a struggling newspaper journalist of 17 years (and with the debt to prove it), I'm bothered by a business model that relies on free content. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe writers -- even that subspecies known as bloggers -- should be paid for their work. Read more »

(For starters, there wasn't enough room for all the people who showed up at today's meeting. Apparently, months ago, long before "Financial Armageddon" was a nationwide buzz word, the California Coastal Commission booked the Board's Chambers for today. Unfortunately, as a result, only a small percentage of folks managed to squeeze physically into today's budget hearing, while a huge crowd was left lingering discontentedly outside. This led to chants of "Let us in! Read more »

Democrats in the California Legislature say they’re ready to take the gloves off and start aggressively attacking the longstanding “no new taxes” pledge that their Republican colleagues signed with American for Tax Reform, which threatens to shut down the deficit-plagued state government. Read more »